Mr. Jager is an arts and culture writer. He received his doctorate in…
The compulsively readable semi-autobiographical novel features monologues, metaphysical asides, raunchy jokes, and pure hilarious bluster — and none of it is verifiable.
Nothing is ever as pretty as it seems.
Plus, nearby exhibitions by Picabia and Rauschenberg attest to New York City’s astonishing cultural richness.
The intent of the artist, the framing of the image, and the hand holding the brush are the biggest determinants of what is ‘seen.’
If a murdered mobster was slumped and bleeding over his linguine, the pioneering crime scene photographer was there minutes later, camera in hand.
Condo has long been adept at taking the visual vocabulary of high modernism and straining them, violently or hilariously, through a contemporary lens.
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